​​The New Jersey Association for Gifted Children (NJAGC) invites you to join us at the NJEA Convention scheduled for Thursday, November 9 and Friday, November 10, 2017, in Atlantic City.​The NJAGC is sponsoring 10 workshops all of which focus on gifted education. For the full schedule of our workshops, please refer to the full-page article in the Fall issue of Promise.

Please be sure to invite your friends and colleagues to attend the workshops and get some wonderful tips to take back to your classrooms. ​Also, be sure to visit us on the convention floor at the NJAGC booth located in the Affiliate Groups Section on the main floor of the convention center.

Deep End Math: Accelerating Instruction for High Achieving Elementary Students (Kristin Baker) What are we doing for the kids who DO get it? Learn pedagogically-sound strategies for both in-class differentiation and accelerated replacement instruction, drawing on 15 years of successful practice.

Game Design (Pavithra Lakshminarayan) A Rover traverses the surface of Mars. Every time it crosses plant/life it beeps. Imagine this is a science project on Life In Mars that children actually build themselves.

Phenomenon-Based Learning For Gifted Learners (Pavithra Lakshminarayan) Phenomenon-based learning is an integrated method of learning that not only offers teachers an opportunity to assess students’ skill levels in various disciplines, but also to personalize content accordingly.

Powerful Strategies to Enhance the Learning of Gifted Students (Nathan Levy) Explore numerous ways to reach gifted learners in challenging ways. Leave with new strategies to help pupils become better creative and critical thinkers. Bring your thinking caps and funny bones.

Practical Ideas for Improving Critical Thinking and Writing (Nathan Levy) Learn time-saving strategies and creative ideas to assist students in developing fluency of writing and thinking. Writing and critical thinking activities will be shared in this engaging, interactive presentation.

Activating Personalized Learning with Twice-Exceptional Students ( Janis Cameron) Practical tools and strategies that provide a personalized learning approach for the twice-exceptional student while continuing to support the whole class within an educational setting.

It’s H.O. T. (Higher Order Thinking Skills) in the Classroom (Constance Drakeobrien) This workshop will include various Higher Order Thinking (H.O.T) strategies, provide H.O.T. resources and demonstrate H.O.T lesson tips and tricks. Relevant for all grade levels and subjects.

Mindfulness for Stressed Out Students and Teachers ( Rebecca McLelland-Crawley) Learn strategies to help promote mindfulness among our stressed students based on the long-term project of middle school gifted students.

Did you know that there is an Accelerated Google Boot Camp at the 2017 NJEA Convention? To register - follow the link